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« on: September 15, 2016, 04:55:58 PM »

This is a second hand account, so I'll post some background. My family (particularly my Dad and myself) enjoy discovering and watching new B-movies every Halloween. For many years he has found films he saw on T.V. As a kid, and there is one in particular that is the "Holy Grail". Seeing as this is the last Halloween when I live at home, I'd like to find it and surprise him. Here is he description:

It's from the fifties, or possibly the sixties, and has these snake-like creatures in it. But they're not normal snake creatures, they are like "brain-snakes" with a physical brain attached to the snake. He watched it alone one night in the seventies on an Akron T.V. channel past midnight. I don't have much more description right now but I can ask him.

In the meantime, thank you in advance!
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« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2016, 06:43:34 PM »

Not much to go on, but one film did spring immediately to mind: Fiend Without a Face (1958).  Andrew reviews it here.  There is a very good picture of the "snake/brain" creature at the bottom of that review.

Not knowing how large the creatures are, or how much "snake" they are compared to how much "brain", other possibilities include The Crawling Eye (1958) (aka "The Trollenberg Terror") (Andrew's review) and Island of Terror (1966).
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2016, 10:36:51 AM »

Not much to go on, but one film did spring immediately to mind: Fiend Without a Face (1958).  Andrew reviews it here.  There is a very good picture of the "snake/brain" creature at the bottom of that review.

Not knowing how large the creatures are, or how much "snake" they are compared to how much "brain", other possibilities include The Crawling Eye (1958) (aka "The Trollenberg Terror") (Andrew's review) and Island of Terror (1966).



Yeah it sounds like Fiend Without a Face (1958)

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« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2016, 09:28:53 AM »

Not much to go on, but one film did spring immediately to mind: Fiend Without a Face (1958).  Andrew reviews it here.  There is a very good picture of the "snake/brain" creature at the bottom of that review.

Not knowing how large the creatures are, or how much "snake" they are compared to how much "brain", other possibilities include The Crawling Eye (1958) (aka "The Trollenberg Terror") (Andrew's review) and Island of Terror (1966).



Yeah it sounds like Fiend Without a Face (1958)





Almost certainly!
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« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2016, 07:24:06 AM »


Not knowing how large the creatures are, or how much "snake" they are compared to how much "brain",


Thsnks for the help, guys!
Unfortunately, I am not sure that it is this film. I asked him about the film last night. Keeping in mind 5he watched this forty five years ago, he said they were tall- like a king cobra, as if they could stand upright like one, at what seemed like eight feet tall. And they weren't brain stems either- apparently he's familiar with Fiend W/out a Face- couldn't ask because he d catch on- his memory is blurry, but he thinks they were actual, scaly snake bodies. That was it, he said, a snakes body with a big brain instead of a head.

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« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2016, 07:31:05 AM »

heres a model kit of the monster from the BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS (1957)



...and in the film itself-it is tall...


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« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2016, 02:11:23 PM »

Yes! That has to be it!
Thank you very much.
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« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2016, 11:38:56 PM »

You can move this to solved.   Smile
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